Word: temperedness
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In this situation of rising frustration, where Catholics and Protestants are neither appeased nor powerful, an ominous political sullenness has developed. The British government is in the curious position of being 'not wanted' and at the same time, "not unwanted." So far, this dislike has been tempered by the ever...
Taken together, these proposals hardly seem likely to serve Carter's stated goal of making the tax system simpler; if anything, filling out returns would become even more complicated. The President's effort to make taxes fairer by closing loopholes and broadening the tax base has also had...
Since then my antagonism has been tempered greatly. This is precisely because I've come to realize that the finals clubs are most destructive not to those "left out" but to those who belong. Nothing helps personal development more than a "healthy" mix of peoples/backgrounds. The clubs, on the other...
But he tempered this by cautioning that "it is not fair to overly criticize" Begin because prior Israeli governments had done similar things. Meanwhile, 20 Arab states demanded a U.N. investigation. Begin retorted that "we stand on the right of Jews to li ve in any part of the land...
Was there a phrase to capture all of this? Mondale could not find one. Nor could Hamilton Jordan or Jody Powell. A search through Carter's hundreds of thousands of public words suggests no easy pigeonholes. "It comes out as Jimmy Carter and not a particular philosophy," says a...